Corrupt label - bad geometry

SKT probably was on the right track but there might be many reasons what can cause the situation you ran into

Many Operating Systems do use the first blocks on a disk device to store information about how the disk device is to be vitualized

On Solaris 10 you would have

  SMI Label
  EFI Label

Your OS found a label on the first device you were trying, which told it that the device is 97203840 blocks

but when it checked the undelying SCSI device it only found  24301440 blocks

!! Beware !!

This would realy make me wonder why.

Usually Solaris does a Autoconfiguration from the SCSI Information if this first blocks are empty

If Solaris finds acceptable data on these first blocks it will not try to fix using the SCSI information

You should try to understand why this situation occured and make sure you are accessing the correct device

You might be misleaded by the history of the device, the device entry on your Solaris System or by the way you try access the device

If I had to continue in this case I would have liked to have a full emcgrab and a current symapi database/Symmetrix configuration including the masking/access database to verify the mapping

If you are really really really sure you are working with the correct device/dtata, you'll have to correct the discrepancy between Solaris device and SCSI device information

This is not to be done by

    format -> label

but by

    format -> type

If this is not working, there are other ways to clear the first blocks first